Roberts tunnel putting water in Bailey/Foxton

[deepsouthpaddler]

Just flipping through the gauges and saw that they turned on the water on roberts tunnel. Latest update was an extra flow of 119 cfs @ 10:15, but the guage hasn't leveled off, so it could be more. Nice little prop up to keep bailey going at a decent flow!

Any update from our Denver Water liason? Will it last through the weekend?

The natural flow sure has made for a pretty nice bailey season, despite early season worries that the tunnel wouldn't run and flows would be low.

[Caspian]

It's true that the early season on NF hasn't been the doom-and-gloom that we anticipated it would be. Last word I had from DWB on the tunnel was that they would not need it until later in June or July, and we are at the start of that period.

I can't give more info right now, as I just learned my contact is out of the office until the end of the month. I'll post when I know more, though.

[deepsouthpaddler]

Looks like the tunnel flow is leveling off around 160 cfs. That should pump the bailey gauge up to 480 and the pine gauge up to about 600cfs. Yahoo!